Tribe Life Gathering: Tribe Media Corp. Partnership, JCC MIlken, Na’amat president

Chef Todd Aarons, center, celebrates the new partnership between his Tierra Sur Restaurant at Herzog Wine Cellars and Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village with TRIBE Publisher Steven Karash, left, and Editor-in-Chief Rob Eshman during an event at the Four Seasons on July 22. (Photo by Courtney Raney)

Parents of incoming students to New Community Jewish High School (NCJHS) gathered recently to celebrate Havdalah, mingle with other parents, and meet faculty, staff and board members. The ceremony was led by, from left: Rabbi David Vorspan, rabbi-in-residence, and Dr. Bruce Powell, head of school; along with Cantor Judy Greenfeld, on guitar, and NCJHS music teacher Jared Stein, also on guitar. Mike Greenfeld, incoming NCJHS board president, offered greetings, and several student leaders were on hand to greet guests.

Congregation B’nai Emet in Simi Valley held its first Pet Parade on June 29. Rabbi Michele Paskow said a prayer for the pets, and animal behaviorist Jody Epstein helped solve some common behavioral problems and talked about good pet nutrition.

Temple Aliyah USY received a Chapter of Excellence Award for the fourth consecutive year from the Pacific Southwest Region of United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism.

Elizabeth Raider of Woodland Hills was elected the new national president of NA’AMAT USA during its July 27 convention in Boca Raton, Fla. From left: Edythe Rosenfield, immediate past national president; Gabriela Shalev, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations; Liz Raider, newly elected national president; and Chellie Goldwater Wilensky, national convention chair.

The JCC at Milken honored chair Steven V. Rheuban with the 2010 Arthur Schreiber Leadership Award during its June 6 gala.

From left: Dave Swartz, former chair of the Jewish Home’s board of directors; Tracey Gluck, board member; celebrity chef Suzanne Tracht, owner of the modern chophouse restaurant Jar; and Marcie Polier-Swartz at the Home’s Chef Series. The event offered a taste of both the Jewish Home, with a presentation by CEO-President Molly Forrest, and the culinary talents of chef Tracht.

From left: former California Assembly Speaker Robert Hertzberg, now chair of G24 Innovations, with Jacques Soriano, president of The Executives, the Valley support group for the Los Angeles Jewish Home. Hertzberg spoke to The Executives during a breakfast program at El Caballero Country Club on July 1.